Greatest Paintings: The French Revolution - Millet's Angelus

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  Hello everyone,

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  Tom Holland here and I am joined by The Great Law Recoming and we are looking at painting in history for paintings that reflect a particular period in history.

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  We'll be looking at the history of the painting itself,

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  the life of the artist and teasing out the mysteries that shadow all four paintings.

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  And today we will be looking at The Angelus by Jean-François Millet, mid-19th century painting.

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  Is it an expression of French Catholicism?

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  Is it an expression of French jacquemnism?

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  Could it possibly be both?

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  That is the mystery we will be exploring today.

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  Hello everyone,

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  welcome back to our series on Great Paintings from History and today we have arrived at the final painting in our series and with me

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  as she has been throughout our previous three episodes in the series is Laura coming and Laura today's painting we're in mid 19th century France what is the painting who's it by what's going on the painting is the Angelus painted in 1859 by Jean-François Millet,

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  who is, I always think, rather amusingly, he's spelt M-I-L-L-E-T, like millets, and R.

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  Millet is spelt M-I-L-L-A-I-S, and I don't know.

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  It's sort of strange.

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  Very confusing.

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  Very confusing.

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  I wanted us to look at this painting because it was and is still, I think, in La France Profonde.

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  The most...

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  famous image of devotion in French art, but it's also,

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